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THE HONGKONG TELEGI

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29,

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Goethe Chick-makers ady to the contrary, fritain disifes that the utmost goodwill shall prevail in all her re- lutions with the Chinesy, and that

CATHOLIC FEAST.

OBITUARY.

SIR HS WILKINSON.

London, Sept. 28.

- MEN SHOW THEIR CHARACTER IN TO-MORROW'S CELEBRATION. ht the back of an organised boycott NOTHING MORE CLEARLY THAN DY

The feast of The Littla. Flower, St. Theresa of the Child; The death is announced of Sir Jesus who was canonized last Hiram Shaw Wilkinson, the Pro- The s.s. Talamba left Amoy this year will be solemnly celebrated Chancellor of Queen's University, morning and fa due here at 6 amin Hongkong at the Roman Cathe Belfast, and formerly Chief Justice to-morrow.

ile Cathedral to-morrow.

of H. M. Supreme Court for China The countless numbor of favours and Korea-Router. The P. & O. 8.5. Kalyan from received through the intercession [The deceased, who was 86 years the resumption of full Business in the 26th September at midnight.pondent) go to prove that the pro-vice in Japan he a Student Ther tercourse in alt parts of the country.

miso ahe made of "sponding her prator over 60 years ago in the Whether it be in South China. It should have beon stated in outline in heaven in sending a year later Bellig talved to the fank report of the exciting thief chase shower of roses on earth is faith of Vice Consul. In 1879-80 he was yesterday, that the European who fully carried out. This may also Acting Assistant Judge at Shang- stopped and caught the fugitive account for the grant popularity hai, Becoming Crown Advocate in snatcher" was Mr. A. J. Wheel of the "Little Flower, whose 1381. He was appointed the Bri- don, of the PW.D.

CUT DOWN EXPENSEçi End, can be patarially, assisted by Hongkong arrived at London on of thu:Young Saint (says a corres of ligo, entored the Consular Ser-

in your kitchen by using a Pansy or Ideal Cooking Btore; which have been specially adapted to meet 16 requirements of the Houso-

holder in Chiha Economy in

fuel is, ensured by the use of the cheapest grade of coal which will give results unsurpassed by, stoves requiring the best grade of coal.

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Pansy and Ideal Stoves are made to last long.

We have a stove for every purpose.

or on the Yangtszó, all that we ask is freedom from interference, and the free exercise of bur trading Fight, without the jeopardising of British lives or property. That much assured, Britain will be found not only wiling but anxious to work in the closest co-operationed with the Chinese in the develop ment of the country and the ad- vancement of the people.

The Bible Study Circle at the Helena May Institute on Friday mornings at 10.30 nm, during the month of October will be conduct by Rev. N. F., Halward. Subject: The Epistle to the Ephesians."

Members of the Helena May Institute are requested to note the following dates-Musicale 5 p.m. October 28th. Plandforte Recital Chopin Programme, Mr. Bowes

Musicale 6 p.m. December 9th.

The Canton boycott has done great harm to Sino-British trade, Mustard &Co.,Ltd. and it is obviously to the interests Smith 6 pm. November 18th.

benrporated under the Compan

Ordinances Hongkong. 16-17, Connaught Road Control

BIRTHS.

MORE-On the 29th Sept, at the Peak Hospital, to Dorothy, wife of Lieut.-Commdr. C. R. More, R.N.R, a daughter,

DEATHS.

STEWART.On September 22, 1926, suddenly at Shanghai, James Stewart, chief engineer, China Merchants' S. N. Co.

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DULMAGE-This morning, Victoria Hospital, Dulmage, of Toronto, Canada, Acting Hoad Mistress of the Diocesan Girls'. School, Hong-

Monument

morrow.

The Telegraph

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1926.

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of neither party that it should con- tinue. We are hoping, therefore, that the next few days will see it

Mr. J. V. A. MacMurray, the United States Minister to China, definitely brought to an end, so that who arrived in the Colony Just the old and natural tradal inter-week from Shanghai, and is at course between the two ports may present on a visit to Canton, will be resumed. The question of the Hongkong on Friday after- noon by the s.s. Fresident Wilson suggested new 'import taxes, is, infor Manila. our view, not necessarily associated

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short span of life on earth is well tish Commissioner for the settle- within living memory ment of clade after the Canton

The celebration of the feast will consist in a solemn High Mass to be sung at 7.30 am, and a solemn Holy Hour with sermon and Bene diction from 6.80 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

Special music, under the direc. tion of Rev. Fr. A. Rigenti, will be aung at the morning as at the afternoon service.

The decoration of the Altar of the Saint is in the hands of the Indies of the new "Auscciation of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus,"

MACAO WEDDING,

riota of 1863, and in 1897 was ap- pointed Judge of H. M. Court for Japan. In 1900 he was appointed Chief Justice of H. M. Court for China, which post he held until his retirement in 1905. He has since been living at Tobermore, County. Derry, and has been Pro-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast. He 1921. Ho was created a Knight in was High Sherlit of his county in

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Kis only son is Mr, Hiram Parkes Wilkinson, who has been Judge of H. M. High Court for Welhalwel since 1916, and Crown Advocate of Shanghai, since 1897.)

SURPLUS COTTON

CROP.

PREVENTING RUINOUS

DA SILVA-PEREIRA..

Much interest was taken at Macao in the marriage of Mr. Guilherme V. da Silva, Agent for Improvement of the Manila sema- Messrs. C. E. Warren & Co., of with the boycott issue; in any event,phore station, including transfer Hongkong, to Miss Anna Carlota it is a matter in which Hongkong to the end of Pier 7, is being urged de Barros Pereira, which took The pro- place at the Cathedral on Sunday can have no direct voice, for the by local shipping men. siniple reason that any points like- ject has been under discussion for morning. The Rev. Fr. A. Morais the last three years, but representa- Sarmento, officiated and the wed- ly to arise in connection therewith tives of the shipping companies ding was largely attended by the price of cotton plunging to ruinous depths and restoring it to must naturally be dealt with by the point out that the need now is Customs authorities and the Treaty greater than ever before.

Powers.

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The return of the number of cases of notifiable diseases which dccurred in the Colony during the week ended Saturday last shows one British case of diphtheria and of enteric fever, the latter being accompanied eight Chinese cases by Eve deaths. One Chinese case of enteric fever was, reported on

Monday..

friends.

A reception was later held at the bride's home.

.PRICES.

New York, Sept. 28. For the purpose of proventing

The groom was attended by a prodtable level, farmers in Capt. D. Fonseca and Mr. F. Bar. Texas are trying to raise ros, whilst the bridesmaids were £20,000,000 with which to take a Misses. J. Soares, M. Souza, Cmillion bales of cotton off the Botelho and G. Silva. The flower-market and hope to persuade other girle, Miases M. Ribeiro da Silva cotton growing States in the south- and A. Barros, looked very charm to take off two million more bales, ing, as also did the little page boy, ly, 16,000,000 marketable bales and thus reduce the approximate- Master A, da Silva.

Report to under 13,000,000. It is indicated in the Government Crop

planned to reduce the acreage, next. yeur by 25 per cent. in order to The P. and O. liner Kashgar, market the Passenger due to arrive here which loft Shanghai. at 5 p.m. Prominent Southern bankers are surplus cotton. to-morrow from, Home by s... Khyber include Mrs. F. Birchall, yesterday, is due here at 6 am. or supporting the plan. Reuters

American Service! Miss E. D. L. Birchall, Mr. F. E. Ewart, Miss F. T. Greig, Capt. G. W. Hallifax, Miss M. Hendry, Lt- Comdr. L. J. P. Jones, D.5.0., R.N., Mr. C. Olmstead, Mrs. D. W. Phil- lips, Roy, and Mra, Frank Short, Miss W. Suckling, Mr. C. E. Shade, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tiller, M. W. J.

Telephone Courtesy, More than once there has been kong. The funeral passes the cause to comment on the lack of

at 5 p.m. to-

courtesy and consideration shown by the class of telephone user who gets somebody else in his office to ring up for him and thon have him/ "put through" when the call has been made. It would seem, judging by recent, experience, that there is still need to urge more thoughtful courtesy, A Home writer has put the case like this: "Mr. A. rings up Mr. B., and on Mr. B. coming to the receiver he is requested by some body ringing Fon behalf of Mr. A. to hold the line while Mr. A is fetched or connected, What is the etiquette White. of it? Here is Mr. B-the called not the caller-kicking, his heels

THE BOYCOTT OUTLOOK.

To-morrow sees the end of the month, and, many are hoping, the end of the boycott also. It will be recalled that in his firat intimation

The Talamba murder trial was

Friday.

He Verry Idea)

of the Canton Government's ar rangements to secure a termina- him, 'comes up in a more or less Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy whether you're not, is not just a opened, only a practiced eye would

tion of the boycott, Mr. Eugene Chen said this would take place not later than October 10th, and prob- ably by the end of September. Chinese reports have since favour ed the latter dute as being the more likely, but there has been no fur- ther official intimation forthcoming from Canton, with the result that the point is still the subject of con- siderable speculation. Chinese and foreign trading interests, both here and at Canton, are anxious that the whole matter be cleared up without further delay, for the ex- isting uncertainty is "satisfactory to no-one concerned.

around while Mr. A., who wants leisurely fashion. Sliquld not A. have been on already, awaiting B.'s arrival? Why should B. (1 write in sympathy, having been a B. myself many times) have to do the waiting? If A. is a busy than and does not want to come to the receiver until his clerk tells him B. is on the line, the same may be said, no doubt, of B. Circum- stances may alter cases, but it seems that the general rule should be that when a person is called to the 'phone he should be able to rely that the person he has been told wants him is in fact there, and not his delegate, deputy, proxy, amanuensis, or factotum, It is this kind of discourtesy on the telephone, as well as the in herent defects of all call telephone systems, that make so many people fed up" with them. It no doubt took a great deal of courage for

Whether you're wealthy, or library shelves and, until it 16 question of how much you've got. be able to locate it. It is opened That angle to riches is all tommy by grabbing the binding of a book two rot. Let's thrush the thing out which is glued to the woodwork

and just see, if it's not. and substitutes for a door-linob.

again resumed before Mr. J. H. yesterday, when further evidence was taken. The evidence was merely of a formal nature. Indian Sepoys from the Singapore Police Force stating that they were called to the scene and assisted to restore order. The case was adjourned.

Knute Hansen, well-known to Shanghai boxing enthusiasts, haa

The man who is poor, though The purpose, while partially for quite happy at heart, cause living effect, is chiefly for keeping cut through life he is doing his part, the usual crowd of nuisances who can always, at worst, breathe the throng to publishers and have no free open air, and say to the whole hesitance in crashing through any world, "By jove, I'm quite fair. visible gate.

He holds his head high, since

at last secured a place before the his conscience is clear. There's footlights of the world's greatest nothing on earth that he ever need His bread and his butter boxing stage. It had always been fear. the big blonde Swedish American's may come rather tough, but at ambition to get into first class least, when he gets them, it isn't heavyweight fighting and he was on bluff. one of the principals in a heavy- weight bout preceding the world's heavyweight championship be tween Dempsey and Tunney at Philadelphia,

They sat upon the river bank.

Her heart he tried to win. Said he, "I'll fall for you," and

gosh,

He did the bank caved in. Then, turn to the man who has

When Gilda Gray, America's money galore, so much that the shimmy queen, arrived in New one thing; he craves for, is more! York for a personal appearance He views all the world with a sort she brought four trunks and a of a doubt, 'cause money is some handbag. The trunks contained thing to worry about.

her personal wardrobe, and the If you have enough to go lightly handbag a yard of printed batik Thomas Francis Wade, G.C.M.G.. along, and keep on the right road, silk which is all she wears on to whether the Canton Government the late: Sir John Le Sage, the K.C.B., at one time Minister in and off of the wrong, you needn't the stage.KAN.

As we see the matter, the issue has been fined down to a point as

famous editor of the London Daily Telegraph, to refuse to have any thing at all to do with a telephone, but he was most certainly spared lots of annoyance.

EXCHANGE RATES.

has the will and the power to bring the boycott to an end. If after to morrow, or by October 10th at the latest, the boycott is terminated and free movement of passengers and shipping between the ports is restored, then Canton's sincerity will be fully demonstrated, and

Paris there will be an immense strength Brussels

Amsterdam ening of the goodwill between the

Berlin taro places. We have every right Copenhagen

We have ov

Vienna to expect that Canton will honour Helsingfors

Lisbon its word, for there has not been

Buenos Aires the slightest ambiguity in the off-

Yokuhama dial communications on the sub- New York: Ject. Certainly nothing will in-Geneva

Milan dresse Hongkong's respect for the Stockholm Canton Goverment more than a de- Oslo

Prague monstration not only of its vicaire madriu but also of its power to bring to la

Hongkong an ond a movement which has done Hongkong so much harm both to Canton and Silver (spot)

Silver (forward) this Colony. Such an outcome

Shanghai

Lady Wade, the widow of Sir

China, has died at Tunbridge much worry. Turn cheerfulness

Wells. after a short illness. She loose, because, after all, you're as In coming to terma with Louis B. was Amelia, granddaughter of Sir rich as the deuce. William Herschel, the distinguish-A

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Mayer for his picture. "Johnny". Get Your 1

* Hair Cut," Jackie Coogan made one stipulation before "agreeing with his father to the She contract,

ed astronomer who discovered the Inquisitive Suitor: She doesn't planet Uranus, and she married smoke, does she?

Sir Thomas Wade in 1868, who, Little Slater: Oh, yes. three years later became British smokes like a fish, Envoy at Peking and held the post'

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I want it understood," he re quired, "that the electricians and owns the movies? More the carpenters are allowed to play of Chinese at Cambridge than 50,000 persons are part baseball with me every noon on

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Rugby, Sept. 28.

178fessor 1804 University.

till 1883. Later he became Pro-.

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ownors in the motion picture in the lot. And so it is, duly in-

A very large number of their dustry, holding 11,331,394 shares corporated and attested, In the 4014 friends witnessed the marriage, statistice from U. S

of stock, according to recent contract. 04.40%

192% which took place at the Presby exchanges. 2.17/82

45torian Church recently of Captain Gordon Alexander Stephenson, the

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There was a circa's New. castle. Two little follows led a Without doubt the oddest door threepenny biteach, but the 4.85 the Singapore Volunteer Corps, and to be found in the United States admission was 6d. One of them Miss Lillan Mary Hutchison, has been contrived by one of the had a bright iden. Leta put 18.16 daughter of Mr. and Mrs Graham big New York nublishing houses, them on the railway line and get Hutchison, Dalvey House, Singa. Just na various disguises are used them finttened out," he anid; "and 22.13

1084 pore. The bride is a member of by grog dispensaries, so this con- they'll look like sixpences." 31.02 well-known Singapore family, while corn has built a door into the So they placed them on the line 20 Captain Stephenson. Is very popu-nanctum annctorum that will and waited till a train passed, but

lar in Volunteer, and other circles. baffle all, but the initiated, nlng! when they went to get the As a result the Church, which had The waiting room, is, obviously coins there was nothing there. been very attractively decorated for a huge library, The door appears The train happened to be the the occasion, was full. 6

boa continuation of the Aberdeen express

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